Laundry-button.



No. 869,872. PATENTED-NOV. 5, 1907.. J. s, BARNES.

LAUNDRY BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED snmazo. 1906.

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JOHN S. BARNES, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO LEWIS E.BARNES,

. OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

LAUNDRY-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 20. 1906- Serial No. 335,409.

To all whom it may concern: at

Be it known that I, JOHN S. BARNES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Laundry-Buttons, and declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, suchas will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in laundry buttons shown in theaccompanying drawings and more particularly set forth in the followingspecification and claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the button; Fig. 2 isa similar view of a modification.

The object of my invention is to construct a button of wire which may bemanufactured at nominal cost to be used by laundrymen, shirtmanufacturers, and others who require a device of this character to holdtogether the sleeves, wristbands, and collars of shirts and othergarments.

Referring to the letters of reference shown in the drawings, A is theshank of the button, A its head, and A its base.

The head is formed by swaging the end of the wire in the formingmachine, and the same operation flattensthe base after it is coiled inthe form shown. In the variation shown in Fig. 2, the head is formed bytwisting the end of the wire in a manner similar to that employed informing the base of the button. The head in this case is also flattenedthat it may more readily enter the button-hole of the garment.

The machine employed to construct this button is the subject-matter ofanother application.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A button formed of a single piece of wire, one end of the wire beingbent to provide a circular base with a smooth periphery and the oppositeend formed into a circular head with a smooth periphery and concentricwith the base, the intermediate portion of the wire forming a straightshank arranged centrally of the head and base.

2. A button formed of wire, one end of the wire being bent to provide acircular base with a smooth periphery and a circular opening, and theother end being formed into a circular head with a smooth periphery andof smaller diameter than the base, a portion of the wire between thehead and base lying within the opening of the base and anotherintermediate portion of the wire being arranged centrally of the baseand head to form the shank of the button, the base end of the wire beingflattened.

3. A button formed of a single piece of wire, one end of the wire beingbent to provide a circular base with a smooth periphery and the oppositeend formed into a circular head with a smooth periphery and concentricwith the base, the intermediate portion of the wire forming a straightshank arranged centrally of the head and base, the base end of the wirebeing flattened.

4. A button formed of a single piece of wire, one end of the wire beingformed into a head and the other end being formed into a base having acentral opening, one part of the intermediate portion of the wire beingdirected into said opening with another part of the intermediate portiondirected at an angle to the first part forming a straight shank for thebutton In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presenceof two witnesses.

JOHN S. BARNES.

Witnesses:

S. E. THOMAS, HENRY E. VILLEROT.

